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Analog vs Digital debate

I don't know whether the debate of whether the best digital recordings (SACD or DVDA) are finally equal to LP sound is over.

My question is whether anyone ever did a careful comparison, say with a signal analyzer, of the number and balance of fundamentals and overtones in recordings of acoustic instruments or groups of instruments by these technologies. Of course my assumption is that if the acoustic "signature" was incomplete with digital that one could argue, as many have, that analog LP recordings still "sound better".

I don't have a stake in this; I am just a scientist that wonders if the experiment was ever run. I would guess that the original CDs were not a match but I wonder if there was a time when the differences were technically inaudible to human hearing.


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Topic - Analog vs Digital debate - BobH 22:35:24 02/25/15 (36)

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